On 1/9/2012 7:38 AM, Steve Marquess wrote:
> 
> It is not relevant ... an attempt to deal with a Microsoft Windows
> issue.  We have since identified a better work-around that does not
> involve changes to the module code.
> 
> Since we're probably going to be asked, here's the issue:  we found that
> the Windows based compilations would occasionally fail when attempting
> to perform successive operations on files.  For instance, 1) link
> executable, 2) run executable, 3) delete executable, 4) (re)link
> executable would fail at step 4 even though the file did not exist
> (previous unlink was successful).  We traced the problem to the bundled
> Windows Defender service; stopping or replacing that avoids the
> problem.  

Aaargh!!! Thanks; my sleep(2) hack can be put to bed :)
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